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SUMMARY:A Contemporary and Regional(ising) Asia?
DESCRIPTION:C. J. W.-L. Wee – Nanyang Technological University (https://www.ntu.edu.sg/research/faculty-directory/detail/rp00282) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nNew cultural expression in East Asia – taken broadly to include Northeast and Southeast Asia – emerges in the 1990s. The 1980s economic ‘rise’ of Asia help support 1990s art exhibitions that curated Asian modern and contemporary art – then novel ideas – in Fukuoka\, Tokyo\, Brisbane and Singapore. An inter-Asian popular culture also circulated across borders first as a Japan Wave and then as the so-called Hallyu. Contemporary cultural expression is intertwined with Cold War-era conceptions of economic modernisation linked to 1950s and 1960s US Modernisation Theory – and\, perhaps unexpectedly\, a once-moribund idea of Asia is revivified. As Chen Kuan-Hsing observes\, ‘using Asia as an imaginary anchoring point can allow societies in Asia to become one another’s reference points’ (Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization [2010]\, xv)\, even as no new ideology congruent with regional economic integration has come about. Nevertheless\, what is notable aspect is that culture engaged with older modernist ideologies in ways not previously conceived. I draw upon my new book\, A Regional Contemporary: Art Exhibitions\, Popular Culture\, Asia\, to offer some consideration of what I describe as the ‘exhibitionary imagination’ as that transforms from the first exhibition of modern Asia as attempted in Fukuoka Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition\, the two-part Asian Artists Exhibition (1979–1980)\, into the Japan Foundation Asia Center’s Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art (2000–2002)\, a three-year project that tried to comprehend contemporary Asia as a region with transgressed national borders. I end with a reflection on the appearance Inter-Asia Cultural Studies in 2000 as a journal project that is part of the period’s cultural emergences. \n ||  \nBiography\nC. J. Wee Wan-ling is Professor of English at the Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has held Visiting Fellowships at (among other institutions) the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies\, Delhi\, India\, and the Society for the Humanities\, Cornell University. Wee is the author of Culture\, Empire\, and the Question of Being Modern and The Asian Modern: Culture\, Capitalist Development\, Singapore. He has recently completed A Regional Contemporary: Art Exhibitions\, Popular Culture\, Asia (in press\, MIT Press).
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SUMMARY:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Writing in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nProf. Junot Díaz\, Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\n  \nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/writing-in-the-age-of-tiktok-a-conversation/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Tegan Smyth (Spring 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Tegan Smyth – Black Box Writers’ Series (Spring 2025)\n \nTegan Smyth reads from Mountain Songs (Proverse Hong Kong\, 2023)\, winner of the 2022 Proverse Publishing Prize \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 5:00pm – 6:30pm \nNo registration is required. Seats are available on first-come\, first-served basis. \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \n\nABOUT BLACK BOx WRITERS' SERIES\nThe Series is part of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing in English\, directed by Dr Antony Huen. \nDuring 2025 Spring Semester\, internationally acclaimed writers join us in the Black Box to read from their work and discuss their creative practice. Please refer to our poster for the schedule of the Series. \n \n\n\nPhoto Highlights \n       \n       \n       \n       \n \n\nMore information about Tegan Smyth from her official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/tegan-smyth-spring-2025/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Events with Prof. Junot Díaz
DESCRIPTION:Additional Content\n\nBibliography\nJunot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her\, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, PEN/Malamud Award\, Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College\, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. \n\nJunot Díaz's awards with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: \n2008 Pulitzer Prize \nNational Book Critics Circle Award \n\nWriting in the Age of TikTok: A Conversation\n \nDate: February 19\, 2025 (Wednesday) \nTime: 7:00pm – 8:30pm \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nRegistration required. Very limited seats. No walk-in allowed. Priority given to HKU staff and students. \nFor HKU members (HKU Portal login is required): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=98645 \nFor non-HKU members: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=98645\n  \n\nAbstracts \nSocial media is dominant and all over the globe the number of readers shrinks – in certain cases\, precipitously. What is the role of writer and of reading in our social media age? What does the collapse of reading portend for our societies? What are readers and writers to do? Join Junot Díaz in conversation with Elizabeth Ho (Assistant Professor of English\, Editor-in-Chief of ASAP/Journal). \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n       \n       \n       \n       \n\nMasterclass: "Worldbuilding 101"\nDate: February 20\, 2025 (Thursday) \nTime: 10:00am – 12:00noon \nVenue: HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU (Location map) \nBy Invitation only. \n\nAbstracts\nWorldbuilding — the creation of convincing “secondary" worlds — has become both an essential practice in storytelling across nearly all narrative medium and a defining feature of our global mass culture. Once a practice confined to genre nerds\, worldbuilding is now everywhere in our culture — from the books we read to the games we play to the vast narrative “universes" controlled by the likes of Disney\, Nintendo\, and Warner Brothers. For better or worse\, worldbuilding is how many of us come to understand our social / political worlds. \nIn our seminar we will discuss some of the strategies and principles common to the best secondary worlds in order to deepen our critical and creative understanding of this invaluable aesthetic practice. \n\nPhoto Highlights\n       \n\nMore information about Junot Díaz from his official website here
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/events-with-prof-junot-diaz/
LOCATION:HKU Black Box\, Room 54\, LG/F\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Underwater with the Feminist Waves
DESCRIPTION:Yanbing Er – National University of Singapore (https://discovery.nus.edu.sg/11459-yanbing-er) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk stages an intervention in one of the most influential stories told about feminism—that of its progressive waves—such that its discursive legacy becomes reconfigured by modalities of racial capitalism. Moving past the familiar image of surface waves crashing on the shore\, I consider the oblique presence of the internal wave as a renewed paradigm for narrating feminism\, especially as an oceanic manifestation that has evaded the grasp of human perception. I offer a brief reading of Rivers Solomon’s 2019 novella The Deep to show how this conceptual submergence of the wave metaphor displaces frames of knowing predicated on human exceptionalism. In a gesture of speculative worldbuilding\, the text narrates a different story of the feminist waves: one that arises from a gathering of Black and queer forms of being acculturated to the depths of the sea. \n ||  \nBiography\nYanbing Er is Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. Her first book\, Feminism Enchanted\, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. 
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/underwater-with-the-feminist-waves/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Accessibility\, Intercultural Mobility and Performance Exchange in the 2024 Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Jason Eng Hun Lee – Hong Kong Baptist University (https://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/academic-staff/dr-jason-lee/) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThe first Hong Kong International Shakespeare Festival (HKISF)\, organized by the Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio in 2024 with generous funding from the Hong Kong government\, was billed largely as an East-West cultural exchange\, raising concomitant issues of internationalism and mobility in the post-pandemic era. The festival line-up included an all-female theatrical production of Tang Shu-wing's King Lear (Hong Kong\, Romania)\, an all-male Sardinian language production of Macbeth (Italy)\, a one-man production of Henry V across the Henriad (Australia)\, a co-created dance-drama production on Lady Macbeth (Italy\, Hong Kong) and a humorous Korean clown adaptation of Hamlet (South Korea). In particular\, the distinctly non-verbal productions of King Lear and Lady Macbeth raised the prospect of improving Shakespeare’s accessibility across Hong Kong’s language and educational divide\, as well as the creation of a theatrical ‘safe space’ to better mediate the territory’s fraught socio-cultural environment. In this paper\, I consider the extent to which these two co-created and cross-disciplinary productions navigate the ‘glocalizing’ imperative of the HKISF and\, given the uneven dissemination of Shakespearean theatre across the world festival circuit\, Tang Shu-wing’s attempt to bridge the dynamic between a large\, well-funded ‘destination’ festival and the smaller-scale ‘community’ festival. These issues tie back to Shakespeare’s legacy in postcolonial Hong Kong\, his contemporary reception across different language audiences\, and amid ongoing attempts to reinforce the cultural projection of Hong Kong as China’s most ‘international’ city. \n ||  \nBiography\nJason Eng Hun Lee is a creative writer\, scholar\, performer and community advocate whose research and practice fields encompass postcolonial and diasporic Asian writing\, global Shakespeare\, performance studies and creative pedagogy. His articles have been published in Textual Practice\, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing\, Wasafiri\, and Shakespeare. His poetry collection includes Beds in the East (2019) and he is co-editor of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (2023). He serves as literary editor for Postcolonial Text and is chief organizer of OutLoud HK 隨言香港\, Hong Kong’s longest-running poetry collective. He is a Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/accessibility-intercultural-mobility-and-performance-exchange-in-the-2024-hong-kong-international-shakespeare-festival/
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